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Movies that feel likeA Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

If you loved A Walk Among the Tombstones, the closest films we have are The Girl in the Fog (2017), Drishyam (2015) and Marshland (2014). All three share A Walk Among the Tombstones' gritty and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Third Murder (2017).

🍅 68% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Scott Frankgrittycontemplativetwistytense
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The Girl in the Fog
2017 · dir. Donato Carrisi
🍅 75%★ 6.8mystery · thriller · crime

Both land grit and twists at once

The difference: Less contemplative, more its own thing

A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.

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Drishyam
2015 · dir. Nishikant Kamat
🍅 64%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · drama

Common ground: murder

When his family stares down the barrel of criminal charges, a commoner channels his street smarts and knowledge of action films to tie the long arm of the law into an investigative Gordian knot.

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Marshland
2014 · dir. Alberto Rodríguez
🍅 91%★ 7.2crime · mystery · thriller

Crime with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · dir. Niels Arden Oplev
🍅 85%★ 7.8drama · thriller · crimePrime Video

Contemplative drama in both cases

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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Colors of Evil: Red
2024 · dir. Adrian Panek
🍅 80%★ 6.4crime · thriller · mysteryNetflix

Mystery built on grit, twice over

When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.

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Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · dir. Drew Goddard
🍅 75%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · crime

Contemplative thriller, and it commits to that

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

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The Bone Collector
1999 · dir. Phillip Noyce
🍅 30%★ 6.7crime · thriller · dramaPrime VideoStarz

The same city underneath both: New York City

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

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The Secret in Their Eyes
2009 · dir. Juan José Campanella
🍅 89%★ 8.2mystery · thriller · dramaHulu

One thread runs through both: murder

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

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Death on the Nile
2022 · dir. Kenneth Branagh
🍅 62%★ 6.3mystery · crime · thrillerHulu

Both lean on twists more than on crime

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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Lucky Number Slevin
2006 · dir. Paul McGuigan
★ 7.7drama · thriller · crime

Tense drama, and it commits to that

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

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Brick
2006 · dir. Rian Johnson
🍅 79%★ 7.1drama · mystery · crime

The same preoccupation in both: drugs

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

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The Third Murder
2017 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 87%★ 6.7drama · mystery · crime

Mystery with a pulse of grit, in both cases

A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.

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